Massimo Menichinelli
Open and collaborative design processes
Meta-Design, ontologies and platforms within the Maker Movement
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The emergence of the Maker Movement has taken place in the context of a
design practice and research that is now open, peer-to-peer, diffuse,
distributed, decentralized; activity-based; meta-designed;
ontologically-defined and defining; locally-bounded but
globally-networked and community-centered. For many years the author
participated and worked in the Maker Movement, with a special focus on
its usage of digital platforms and digital fabrication tools for
collaboratively designing and manufacturing digital and physical
artifacts as Open Design projects. The author's main focus in practice
and research as a meta-designer was in understanding how can
participants in distributed systems collaboratively work together
through tools and platforms for the designing and managing of
collaborative processes. The main research question of this dissertation
is: How can we support and integrate the research and practice of
meta-designers in analyzing, designing and sharing open and
collaborative design and making processes within open, peer-to-peer and
distributed systems?
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